The Abuse and Mismanagement of HUD


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HUD Scandals


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Mention the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the word scandal comes to mind. When it comes to recent history, the association is quite accurate; in 1989-90 congressional panels were investigating -abuses, favoritism, and mismanagement- at HUD; in 1954 HUD's predecessor, the Federal Housing Administration, was targeted by the FBI for involvement in fraudulent home-improvement schemes; in the 1970s HUD was scrutinized for lax lending standards, blatant overappraisals, and shoddy housing. In this ground-breaking volume, Irving Welfeld, a senior analyst with HUD, describes and explains these sensational episodes as well as a series of hidden blunders that have cost taxpayers billions of dollars. In this thorough, firsthand account, Welfeld provides not only soundly documented history, but analyses of events that arrive at different interpretations than Congress reached in its investigations. Throughout, his readings ask hard and probing questions: Where were the overseers--the media, Congress, the General Accounting Office, the Office of Management and Budget? To what extent is poor management the root cause of HUD's failures? Will tighter regulation help in keeping out corruption? After his comprehensive survey of the scene, Welfeld goes the final step and offers solutions: a set of programs that would minimize secrecy on the part of federal administrators and the temptation to abuse the public trust. Most importantly, the programs outlined here will enable HUD to more effectively fulfill its mission to see that there is decent affordable housing for all Americans. HUD Scandals will be of interest to scholars of public administration, political scientists, and analysts of housing issues.




The Abuse and Mismanagement of HUD


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Thinking About Political Corruption


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Peter deLeon argues that while it is often individuals who actually engage in political corruption, it is the US political system that condones or encourages such actions. Once this perspective is recognised, one can begin to understand ways in which the costs of corruption might be alleviated.













Monitoring Government


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This volume offers the first systematic evaluation of the offices of inspector general (OIG) and examines the government-wide investment in the OIGs concept. Despite their increasingly prominent, often controversial, role in the internal oversight of government, very little is known about their institutional or operational problems.




HUD Management


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The Dept. of Housing and Urban Develop. (HUD) assists millions of Amer. through programs that encourage home ownership, house the poor, and promote econ. develop. To accomplish its mission, HUD relies on the integrity of thousands of third parties -- such as private lenders, contractors, nonprofit org., and local governments. As HUD dramatically downsized its staff in the 1990s, it came to rely more and more on private contractors, which deliver programs and perform many functions that used to be done by HUD's staff, incl. those in its mortgage insur. and rental assistance programs -- areas at high risk for fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement. This report on HUD's acquisition mgmt. discusses the challenges HUD faces in overseeing its contractors. Charts and tables.




Management Reform


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